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COOLEY, Arnold James

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A cyclopaedia of practical receipts, and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy and domestic economy. Designed as a compendious book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families. Second edition.
1845
20.0 x 12.0 cm
Pp [i-v] vi-vii [viii] 1-808
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Binding: brown cloth, gilt.

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A cyclopaedia of practical receipts, and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy. Designed as a comprehensive supplement to the pharmacopaecias, and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families. By Arnold J. Cooley, author of the "Anatomy of quackery", etc. Third edition. Entirely rewritten and greatly enlarged
22.0 x 14.0 cm
Pp [i-vii] viii-xi [xii] [1] 2-1344
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LBL missing*OBL

General comments: there were also several American editions published, dated 1846, 1851, 1875 and 1879-80. The first American edition published New York and Philadelphia: 1846, had a slightly different title, although it was a reprint of the second London edition.